Existence Quote by Charles William Eliot

“Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.” quote by Charles William Eliot — Download Open image

“Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.”

Charles William Eliot

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One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

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“You allow that we designate a disease as mortal when Nature is so severely attacked, and her strength so far exhausted, that she cannot possibly recover her former condition under any change that may take place. "Now, my good friend, apply this to the mind; observe a man in his natural, isolated condition; consider how ideas work, and how impressions…

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Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

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Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely…

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“It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being, in vain he…

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The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by…

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“We should daily repeat to ourselves," I exclaimed, "that we should not interfere with our friends, unless to leave them in possession of their…

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Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.

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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

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Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help…

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May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments. May our testimonies ever grow stronger as we seek to find the fountain of eternal truth. May the brotherhood that exists in our quorum be of comfort and strength and security as we pass through this…

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